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The General at Canton proffered in kindly terms those of the European residents in that Settlement.
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station sent a sympathetic telegram from Wei Hai Wei and the Commissioner of that Colony wrote expressing his distress at the disaster which had befallen us.
Viscount Hayashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan, telegraphed to the Imperial Japanese Consul here, to convey to me the expression of his sincere and profound sympathy and the Chief of the Japanese Military Staff in Formosa sent an Officer to me for a similar purpose. These various messages and the subscriptions from outside the Colony sent to the Relief Fund, to which reference has already been made, were pleasing evidence of the esteem in which the Colony is held.
In the course of my report on the damage done by the typhoon of the 18th September, I have referred in several places to the delay in repairing that damage due to subsequent storms. On the night of September 19th/20th, a typhoon moving West-North-West across the China Sea with unusual velocity passed South of the Colony